Content written by John Mitchell and Mariko Silver and published by Pacific Standard
MBA News Digest Comment: The concept of “pop-up” classes may be appropriate for GME programs. Read the article and think about it in the context of headlines from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and companies about which those headlines are focused.
Extracted Content: Generation Z has grown up with technology that allows for rapid responses to fast-breaking issues of the day. Whether it’s Supreme Court rulings or hurricanes, young people can organize political rallies within days and fundraise for relief efforts within hours. Gen Z students are accustomed to engaging with the world as it changes.
Responding to Gen Z’s interest in real-time engagement, colleges are experimenting with ways to make themselves more relevant to students, and to the world. Four years ago, Bennington College offered its first “pop-up” class after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Missouri. The college quickly created an intensive four-week course on discriminatory police practices, The Ferguson Report, and representations of its findings in the media, all coordinated by experts in multiple disciplines.